Lagoon

On Thursday morning the kids and I packed up and left Bear Lake to spend a few days in Logan with my mom and Ken. Eric had left earlier to try and complete his Bucket List Item #3 (post forthcoming)!

The kids and I have been wanting to go to Lagoon for years! And luckily we were able to make time for it on this trip, AND we were able to convince my mom to go with us.  I had not been since high school, so I may have been even a bit more excited than the kids were.

 Well maybe except for Jackson. He must ask me at least 4 times a week if we can visit Knott's Berry Farm, Disneyworld, Six Flags, etc.....

We were there when it opened (11 am-which seemed late to me), and stayed until 9:30 pm, and were able to do ALMOST everything.

Our first ride of the day:



Other pics:



Sade may look super happy and good natured in every picture, but she was a whiny mess a good portion of the day. Since she is usually fairly good, I am assuming lack of sleep was overtaking her. It's a good thing she is adorable.



We rode a lot of the small rides in the morning and then headed over to the waterpark.



After a couple of hours we left the waterpark, and resumed exploring the park, this time focusing on  the big rides. I'm grateful Megan and Jackson are both big enough to ride together. There were a couple of jerky roller coasters that I abstained from, out of fear of sickness.

The quintessential Lagoon ride. The Sky Ride:



My favorite ride is The Scrambler. And it's Sade's favorite ride too!:



It was kind of a fabulous day. I just hope it's not another 20 years before we get to go back!

Oldies But Goodies

 While visiting Utah (and Idaho) we spent time with our favorite oldies. We were able to spend an afternoon with my 92 year old Grandma in Idaho:
 

 

Filling up the bird feeder:



And were able to see Eric's 96 year old Grandpa a number of times:



They are both extremely hard of hearing! You truly have not lived until you have heard Sadie screaming at them trying to hold a conversation. Hearing her yell, "I'M FOUR AND AM IN PRE-SCHOOL" is the best thing ever.

After The Kids Went To Bed

The Bear Lake posts continue........

 

It all started out innocently enough.

 

After putting the kids to bed we cajoled Autumn (my sister-in-law) into showing us her award winning Zumba routine.

 

 I for one was particularly interested since I know for a FACT I would be seriously terrible at Zumba.

 

 Choreographed dancing and I do not mix.

 

Then......we all started to get that feeling.

 

You know that feeling?

 

The feeling that you MUST get off your butt and dance like a crazy person and not care one teeny tiny bit what anyone else thinks about it.

 

So that's what we did.

 

The boys went first:

 

 

Krista led them in a hilarity inducing Zumba routine:
 

 

I thought we would never recover.

 

Us girls were next:

 

 

Then the real fun started. We lost ourselves.

 

 

If you can think of a song, with a corresponding dance, we did it.

 

Dirty Dancing? Final Routine? I've Had The Time Of My Life?

 

It was a dream come true:

 

 

Thank goodness we had one kid who was hanging out with us, so we could complete the infamous lift:

 

 

It got intense. Check out Dustin's entrance:

 

 

What an attention hog!

 

More dancing:

 

 

Nate tried to pretend that he could not remember how to do the Kris Kross Jump dance, but we all knew he wouldn't be able to resist once the music came on:

 

 

And finally....If you know me, you may know that I know every single lyric to Ice Ice Baby. I memorized all of the lyrics as a 12 year old, and 22 years later it finally paid off. My debut:

 

 

It was epic, and should have been on my bucket list. And....I'm not one bit embarrassed about it. Okay....Maybe half a bit embarrassed.

Deep Sleep

If you fall asleep around these parts and Megan and Jackson happen to be in the vicinity you could end up in a bit of trouble.

Sade was their first victim:



But they really outdid themselves when Eric lost himself to sleep:



If you enlarge the picture you may notice that they were even able to draw three lines on his nose with marker. Impressive!